Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Law and Migration

In any given week in 2007, newspapers around the world carried reports of “illegal” migration. This did not start in 2007. It is not poised to end any time soon. While many of the accounts are about the United States or the European Union, unauthorized migration is newsworthy in all corners of the globe. Russia has a large and growing extralegal population. China stopped more than 2,500 illegal border crossers in 2009. Thailand and Malaysia have launched a cooperative approach to their shared illegal populations. The Gulf of Aden is a key human smuggling route. South Africa is attempting to grapple with its unauthorized occupants. Illegal migrants come to droves in India, and in lesser tempering this view of citizenship. Considering the limits of law in this regard, it is crucial to unearthing the place of law in accounts of globalization, and to understand both how and why globalizing forces are making people illegal.

It is worth examining as to why people and tribes of people are being termed illegal, what is it that does not give them support in the country they seek shelter and why do they leave their native land to find shelter in a foreign land. Here under the paper proposes to study and understand the concept of illegal people, how illegal migration is being aided by the process of globalization and how does it harm the native society and also the ill effects of migration on the migrants.